Improvement in corn-planters



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FOR -Gmewowmfoa CORN Puwvisx.

N. 119;142. l Patented sep.19, 1871.

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LYSANDER L. HAWORTH, OF DEOAIUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO `HIMSFJLF, MAH- LON HAWORTH, GEORGE D. HAWORTH, AND JAMES W. HAWORTH.

VIMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,142, dated September 19, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYsANDER L. HAWORTH, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in GordStop, of which the following is a speciiication:

My invention relates to a metallic stop to be fastened upon the cordthat is used to operate machinery when knots are used upon the cord, such knots Working in crotched plates or in notched "pulleys, said stop preventing the Wear of the knot upon the cord, the stop being so formed that it is readily adjusted upon the cord.

Figure l is a side View of stop. Fig. 2 is areverse vievir of stop. Fig. 3 is a side Viewv of stop, showing manner of making a splice in the cord. Fig. 4 is a reverse vieW of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an enlargedside view of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is an enlarged top view of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of Fig. 3. Fig. 8 is an end vievvr of Fig. 3. Fig. 9 is a side vieW of stop as cast open. Fig. 10 is an end view of Fig. 9. Fig. 11 is a side view of another form of stop.

The stop, as shown in Figs. l, 2, 10, and 11, can be fastened to the cord as follows: The oord is passed back of the arm or arms, then brought in front of the arm orarms and crossed, laying the ends of the oord in the openings, when the stop is laid in a sWage or die and the openings closed over the cord.

This stop is an improvement on the knotted cord that is used to operatel the seed-dropping mechanism of a corn-planter patented September 27, 1864, by John Thompson and John Ramsey, No. 44,472,`and of a corn-planter patented February 22, 1870, by George D. Haworth, No 100,032.

A is the cord, upon which is fastened the metallic stop B. In Figs. l and 2 the cord is shown as passing around the arms D El and knotted cord laid in the openings O O, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10; then the stop is hammered so as to close the opening; the cord being stretched when in use, the -knots are drawn down on the arms D E, preventing the stop from opening. If a stop should be broken another can be readily put upon the cord. In Fig. ll is shown a stop cast open, With only a single arm, G. This stop is fastened to the cord in the same manner as the ones shown in Figs. l and 2. As shown at c c, ff, and o o', the metal is rounded to prevent the Wearingof the cord. In Figs. 3 and 4 isshown the manner -in Which the stop is used in making a splice in the cord, this form of stop being cast Without the openings o o described before. The end of the cord A is passed through hole C, and in front of and then under the rod D. The cord A is passed through the hole F, then under the cord A, then in front of and over the rod E,

when the ends ofthe cord are tied together, as

shown in Fig. 4. By means ofthe stop the cord is prevented from Wearing at the knots, as it does when only a knot in the cord is used.

I claim as my invention- The metallic stop B, constructed substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

LYSANDER L. HAWORTH. Witnesses:

J AM'Es PENIWELL, PATRICK GRAHAM. 

